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To cut carbon emissions, President Biden announced an initiative to further cut the cost of solar installations, like this one being tested at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado.

How The U.S. Could Halve Climate Emissions By 2030

President Biden plans to cut U.S. emissions 50 to 52 percent by 2030. The question is: what kind of climate policies will work that fast?

Police hold a perimeter near the White House as demonstrators gather to protest police brutality in the morning hours of May 31, 2020, in Washington, D.C.

Political Divisions Drive Police Brutality Lawsuit Settlements

Most of the largest civil settlements for police killings were in liberal areas in the year after the Ferguson unrest. Now, lawyers say current protests are hardening political divisions on policing.

India recorded 78,761 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, pushing the global total past 25 million.

Coronavirus Cases Top 25 Million Globally As India Emerges As A New Epicenter

The grim milestone was crossed on Sunday, one day after India recorded more than 78,000 cases of the virus.

Air conditioners on display in Baghdad. Congress's covid relief package will also phasedown the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, putting the U.S. in line with an international agreement to fight climate change.

Climate Action For Christmas? Omnibus Bill Includes Biggest Policy Shift In Years

Congress has long struggled to pass new laws addressing climate change, even ones with bipartisan support. But the end-of-year spending package includes an energy bill with major climate measures.

180,000 Buzzing Paris Residents Are Safe And Secure After Notre Dame Fire

Quentin Geant, California branch manager of Beeopic, works with his father Nicolas Geant to care for the nearly 180,000 bees on top of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. The bees survived last week's fire.

Ben Burtt and Craig Barron at their 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival presentation of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." This year they have created a video presentation for the TCMFF Home Edition for "Chain Lightning."

TCM Classic Film Festival's Second Home Edition Runs Through Sunday

'West Side Story' opens virtual festival on TCM and HBO Max

A traveler at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport walks to a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint on Nov. 26, 2014.

It Was Shoes On, No Boarding Pass Or ID. But Airport Security Forever Changed On 9/11

No boarding pass or ID was needed to go to the gate, and 4-inch-blade knives were allowed aboard planes. Now we take off shoes, can't have liquids over 3.4 oz and go through high-tech body scanners.

A small group in hard hats gathered on Saturday for Mass in Paris' Notre Dame cathedral. It was the first Mass since a fire devastated the church in April.

Notre Dame Holds 1st Mass Since Fire Devastated The Historic Paris Cathedral

A group of around 30 people wearing hardhats gathered for Mass in the cathedral on Saturday, exactly two months after a severe fire. The service was not open to the public.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, center in orange shirt, participates in a Youth Climate Strike outside the United Nations, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 in New York.

UN Chief Warns Of 'Point Of No Return' On Climate Change

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the world’s efforts to stop climate change have been "utterly inadequate" so far and there is a danger global warming could pass the "point of no return."

Pro-independence supporters celebrate the results of an independence referendum vote in Nouméa, New Caledonia, in October. In a vote that marked a milestone in a three-decade decolonization effort, 46.7% supported independence. Now the Pacific island territory has a government made up mostly of pro-independence politicians and the congress is expected to select a new president this month.

New Caledonia's New Government Seen As 'Significant Turning Point' In The Pacific

After nearly half the Pacific island territory's population voted in favor of independence from France in a referendum in October, a new government is made up mostly of pro-independence politicians.

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